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Super 7 Records through Wednesday. 1. King (14-2): The Lions’ only losses of the season have been one-run games against strong Hillsborough and Plant teams, making King the team to beat in Hillsborough County. 2. Alonso (15-2): The Ravens have rolled since losing big to Plant in the Saladino Tournament, ...Read more

King will host Hillsborough on Saturday in a matchup of the top teams in Class 6A, District 9. But when the home players suit up for the matinee ball game, they won’t be the only Lions in the house. Last season, King honored the baseball teams from 1960-1968 — the ...Read more

Super 7 Records through Wednesday 1. Jesuit (12-2): The Tigers took a road trip through Pensacola and New Orleans, coming home with three victories and outscoring their distant opponents 15-4. 2. King (12-1): The Lions’ only loss came on a Kyle Tucker (Plant) home run in tournament play, but the ...Read more

At Brandon Scores King 7, East Bay 3 Plant 14, Brooks DeBartolo 2 (six innings) Steinbrenner 13, Spoto 1 Brandon 8, Hillsborough 1 Pitchers of the day Brandon’s Drayden Williams held Hillsborough to three hits and one earned run with three strikeouts and no walks through five innings. …With Plant ...Read more

At Brandon Scores King 12, Brooks-DeBartolo 0, 5 inn. Plant 6, East Bay 0 Steinbrenner 7, Hillsborough 6 Brandon 14, Spoto 0, 5 inn. Pitchers of the day King left-hander Brian Lee struck out nine in five innings against Brooks-DeBartolo. He gave up just two hits. … Plant right-hander Zach ...Read more

TAMPA — The main objective of a leadoff hitter is to get on base. But in eight games, King centerfielder Sey Juan Lawrence hadn’t done much of that. He had just two hits and three walks among 32 plate appearances. Lawrence, who had been hitting in the cages daily, was frustrated. ...Read more

Times’ super 7 Records through Wednesday 1. Jesuit (7-0): The Tigers have three double-digit wins, but they’ll have their work cut out for them with back-to-back tough opponents in IMG Academy and Tampa Catholic. 2. Steinbrenner (5-1): The Warriors’ only loss so far came to a strong Wiregrass Ranch team, ...Read more

TAMPA — He’s one of the Tampa Bay area’s biggest prospects, but Alex Faedo shrugs off the very mention of that notion. Maybe its because the reserved right-hander, who has been sidelined with a toe injury, doesn’t want to jinx himself before even throwing his first pitch for Alonso this ...Read more

Hernando SS Christian Arroyo and Durant ace Tyler Danish continue to bring in accolades. Both were named first-team All-Americans by Baseball America on Tuesday. Arroyo, the Times’ all-Suncoast player of the year, ranked among the state’s leaders with 11 home runs while batting .524 and knocking in 35 runs during the Leopards’ ...Read more

Player of the Year: Christian Arroyo, Sr., Hernando If MLB draft gurus were surprised Hernando shortstop Christian Arroyo flew off the board in the first round, few in Brooksville were. • “The kid’s definitely got it all going on,” Leopards teammate and USF signee Brandon Lawson said. Arroyo was the ...Read more

Pitcher of the Year: Brett Morales, Sr., King Why we picked him: Morales spent his first two seasons at King as an infielder, earning a reputation – and attention from college coaches – with his bat and glove. He transitioned to the mound as a junior, going 6-1 with a ...Read more

The night and the first two rounds of the draft were simultaneously coming to an end, and Oscar Mercado was finally starting to get nervous. Mercado, a slick-fielding shortstop from Gaither, had been projected as a late first-round or early second-round MLB draft pick and those slots had long since ...Read more

King senior pitcher Brandon Caples has signed with College of Central Florida in Ocala, according to Lions coach Jim Macaluso. Caples teamed with UF signee Brett Morales to form a dominant pitching duo that led King to its best record in school history (25-4) and into the Class 6A state ...Read more

photo gallery FORT MYERS — Every one of Jim Macaluso’s 38 years at King has ended without a state championship. Most, in fact, ended in the district tournament and more than a dozen came to a close in regionals. Only three times in Macaluso’s storied career have the Lions come ...Read more